Comment on The waiting is killing me
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWho uses qq instead of question marks? I’ve only ever seen old school cops do that.
Comment on The waiting is killing me
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWho uses qq instead of question marks? I’ve only ever seen old school cops do that.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s an old school crying emoticon, though might be more like tears welling (QQ) rather than outright crying (T.T), though the lower case qq does look more like tears streaming rather than welling, except one eye is crying from the inner corner while the other cries from the outer corner.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Q.Q I can understand, qq I cannot.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I required a lot of context to figure QQ out back in the day, and even then, I didn’t really get why it meant crying. Took me a long time to really wrap my mind around the 2nd gen emoticons and stop trying to figure out the abbreviation, even after I understood the meaning. During that time, I was more likely to use “qq” rather than “QQ”, though even today I still see it as a reference to “QQ”, just lazier typing.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I remember ICQ fondly, but I guess I’m too young or didn’t inhabit the same tech niches you do.
To me, ending a typed message with “qq” or “QQ” is for teletype systems that lacked length and special characters, so it helped if you alphanumerically stated that your message was an interrogative, which wound up being “qq,” presumably two for certainty it wasn’t a typo or a word ending in Q.
E.g. “THERE” could mean “I am there” and “THERE QQ” could mean “Are you there?”